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[Braag]

I know GAF users are mainly older people. But I kinda wish we had some sort of poll on what people here actually listen to. Cause anytime someone creates a rap related thread, people are straight up seething.

 

[Richard Packer]

I know GAF users are mainly older people. But I kinda wish we had some sort of poll on what people here actually listen to. Cause anytime someone creates a rap related thread, people are straight up seething.

My guess would be country, but not the Shaboozey type, for obvious reasons.

 

[Mobilemofo]

My grandson is currently rolling through 90s rap. The whole 90s was my thing. What a fuckin time to be alive. So much good stuff over ten years. Em, dre, Ace of Base, Prodigy, All Saints, Shamen, Kriss Kross (). I'm not even going down the dance route.

I haven't heard any of eminems newer stuff. Because I'm not that interested tbh. If I come across it, great. If not not..ah well.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

The track in the op sounds like he's rapping from 2005 like it should be on the marshall Mathers or the Eminem show album.
Doesnt make any sense otherwise.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

I listened to a lot of rap growing up, but it's hard to do when you get older. It's just aimed so hard at the youth that it becomes embarrassing to listen to, people trying to be tough on a song when they are like 35 ain't so cool as you get past your twenties.

You have fucking Jay-Z in his fifties rapping about selling crack when he was a teenager. It's cringe on planetary levels.

Eminem got some good stuff early when he was an addict, but anything he has done in the last 10 years is so childish and weird. It's true what they say, that celebrities don't grow up.

 

[March Climber]

I listened to a lot of rap growing up, but it's hard to do when you get older. It's just aimed so hard at the youth that it becomes embarrassing to listen to, people trying to be tough on a song when they are like 35 ain't so cool as you get past your twenties.

You have fucking Jay-Z in his fifties rapping about selling crack when he was a teenager. It's cringe on planetary levels.

This is a half-truth.

Yes, Jay-Z did rap about crack in one of his recent works, but it was because he had grown out of that life and he was trying to tell his story as a way to not recommend it to others.

Jay-Z is one of the examples of someone successfully transitioning to more mature topics with his rap music, while still sometimes making fun music with good production.

Rick Ross on the other hand matches what you describe about Jay Z, and he is slowly starting to fall in popularity because of it.

 

[Stafford]

As soon as I heard this I knew it had to be a old song, no way he'd bring something like this today.

That being said, this whole documentary, bro wtf is this? The name alone, so damn cringe. Used to listen to his music a lot back in the day, but even his old shit just got boring for me. For me he's never been great replay value.

 

[Sinozen]

A version of it already existed back in 2002, you can hear it at the start of this song track:

So it's not even a new song?

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Dude is 52 years old and rich... Just embarrassing to be still in the "rap game" if you ask me.

And what's wrong with that?



There are people who are 80 years old, dress like children, and act as if nothing's happening.

 

[Northeastmonk]

What if we didn't look at age and just at the music they created? Are you just suppose to only play your classic tracks once you reach a certain age. It's weird how unsupportive some people can get when it comes to age. I have listened to him since I owned his LP album. I grew up listening to his music. Rap God was a great track and he wasn't in his 20's when he made it.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

It's weird how unsupportive some people can get when it comes to age.

internalised "social clock", "chrononormativity", etc.

 

[bitbydeath]

So it's not even a new song?

It's a newly released song.
Who knows if it was already fully recorded or if it's been only finished recently.